The man accused of strangling a pregnant...

NO REMORSE.

April 4, 1989

COLUMBIA, S.C. — NO REMORSE. The man accused of strangling a pregnant pathologist at New York's Bellevue Hospital says he feels no sympathy for the doctor. In three recent interviews with The State newspaper, Steven Smith, 23, said Dr. Kathryn Hinnant's slaying Jan. 7 received an inordinate amount of media attention because she was white and middle class. ''It ain't nothing new to me,'' said Smith, who said he had sold crack and robbed people since he was 16. ''When my sister died, she wasn't even in the news.'' His sister, Diane Eunice Flowers, was shot to death at her New London, Conn., home in 1980, in what police said was an accident. Hinnant, a 33-year-old native of Lake City, was beaten, raped, strangled and robbed. Smith said he robbed the doctor but maintains he is innocent of the other charges. He is being held in a psychiatric unit in Brooklyn.